If I had $3K available to splurge on a new bass that I can't try before I buy, I'd rock the hell out of a Stash. Of course, I could also get an Ampeg V-4B, an Ampeg SVT-610 HLF, and a Fender Deluxe P-bass Special all brand new for that price too. Now if only I had $3K burning a hole in my pocket I'd have one dilemma of a choice to make.

The weight, per the web site specs, is 10 lbs. It depends on what one feels as heavy, and it very well can be. Aren't a lot of Alder/ash basses near that, with all the gewgaws, gimcracks, bells & whistles?

What kills me is how oblivious people are to the fact that in 2014, most music is still being made on guitars and basses that have not materially changed in at least fifty years.

There obviously is no need for "the future" in guitars and basses.

[The fork evolution of the neither-fish-nor-fowl "modern bass guitar" is an exception, but it is a third instrument, performing an entirely new role.]

"The Future" is in signal processing, not the instruments themselves. The progress of digital processing and recording has been stunningly revolutionary, while the musicians themselves are still pounding away on sixty-year-old-design instruments.

That tubular neck looks like loads of fun.
I have a feeling that there's not a lot of money flowing thru the pentagon for a better bass design-- or we'd be able to blow up war planes with our deep low freq by now